Well, actually the AP is reporting at MSNBC.com, but I am asking your opinion on the matter.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - The Hershey Co. said Friday it is considering changes to the design of a mint that Philadelphia police say looks nearly identical to a tiny heat-sealed bag used to sell powdered street drugs.

Apparently the street thug drug dealers have the market on the design?

Hershey at first rejected the police claims. “The product is clearly labeled with product identification, ingredients and nutritional information and is clearly branded as an Ice Breakers item,” the company said in a statement earlier this week.

Ice Breakers Pacs, which first hit store shelves last month, are nickel-sized dissolvable pouches with a powdered sweetener inside. The pouches come in blue or orange and bear the Ice Breakers logo.

Police warn of the danger:

The firm said Friday the mints were never intended to resemble anything — but the similarity was so striking that longtime veterans of Philadelphia’s police narcotics squad were fooled when they saw the mints.

Philadelphia police Chief Inspector William Blackburn last week said the mints glorify the drug trade. And he warned that the resemblance could have consequences if, for example, a child familiar with the mints swallows a heat-sealed bag of cocaine.

Well, what about those unfortunate children familiar with the cocaine packets accidentally swallowing a packet of ice-breakers?

“If Hershey is considering changes, that’s a good thing, that’s the prudent thing to do,” Blackburn said Friday. “And that’s what we wanted — we wanted to prevent a tragedy.”

Maybe if we sealed the freaking border and stopped imprisoning border agents trying to do their job, their might not be so many little cocaine packets floating around? Just an idea.

Seriously, there can be a variety of views on this and I’d like to hear yours. I mean, I’m a little naive to tiny heat-sealed bags used to sell powdered street drugs. Is Hershey as naive as myself?